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Major Gifts and Campaign Senior Manager

Employer
Illinois Mathematics and Science Academy
Location
Aurora, Illinois

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The Major Gifts/Campaign Senior Manager is a full-time position that requires a collaborative and entrepreneurial fundraising professional to help the Illinois Mathematics and Science Academy (IMSA) deepen and develop a more robust and sustainable philanthropic development program. The MG/CSM is joining a small development team at a critical time in IMSA’s growth and expansion. They will be responsible for deepening existing donor relationships and identify and helping to cultivate new potential donors.

The MG/CSM position will work with staff leadership to raise funds for a multi-million dollar endowment campaign to support IMSA’s Promise Program, a pipeline program that addresses the unique challenges of culturally, linguistically, and economically diverse students who choose to pursue STEM education by providing academic enrichment programming at low to no cost to families.

The Illinois Mathematics and Science Academy (IMSA) is committed to an equitable, diverse and inclusive teaching and learning environment.  Through a model of Equity and Excellence, IMSA has committed to advancing equity in STEM education and representation and creating a diverse, inclusive community of global citizens who can realize their full potential, and execute our mission to advance the human condition.

This Equity and Excellence Model is the intentional integration of Cultural Competence, Diversity, Equity, Equity-Minded Frame, Excellence and Inclusion into every facet of the Academy, with the understanding that it is an active and ongoing process involving structures, processes and people and not an isolated initiative.

  • Work collaboratively with Development staff to identify top major gift prospects and annual fund prospects from within and outside IMSA’s network
  • Establish and volunteer committee to support endowment campaign fundraising
  • Help with, and in some cases lead, research and development of individual strategies for prospects and create a comprehensive stewardship program
  • Manage a portfolio of campaign prospects, including: the identification, cultivation, solicitation, in-person prospect meetings with existing leadership annual giving prospects ($1,000+) and some major gift prospects ($10,000+), and stewardship of prospects
  • Utilize Raisers Edge to support and track campaign progress
  • Manage and help to design and implement strategies for various campaign activities, including campaign kick-off, donor cultivation and stewardship events, and campaign celebration
  • Work with Public Affairs team to produce and refine needed campaign materials, including case for support, campaign updates and reports via video, print, website and social media
  • Work with Public Affairs to incorporate endowment campaign messaging and relationship building in to the existing communications tools, events, and solicitations;
  • Participate in campaign committee and board meetings, and regularly report on campaign progress
  • Ensure all prospect activities and communications are accurately entered into Raiser’s Edge
  • Overnight travel up to approximately 5 days per month
  • Other appropriate duties, as required
  • Bachelor’s degree required
  • Minimum of eight years of business development or fundraising experience
  • Demonstrated success in closing gift solicitations at the five+ figure level
  • Strong influencing and collaboration skills with the credibility and persuasiveness to secure support from diverse sources
  • Excellent interpersonal, oral and written communications, organizational and time-management
  • Demonstrated success interfacing with board members and volunteers
  • Excellent computer skills, including proficiency in MS Word, Excel, and donor databases
  • Demonstrated ability to meet goals on time and handle multiple tasks and projects
  • Strong entrepreneurial spirit and ability to thrive in a small shop
  • Strong team player
  • Ability to work occasional night or weekend events or meetings

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

  • Advanced degree strongly preferred
  • Experience in secondary and higher ed fundraising
  • Bilingual, Spanish

This position will support IMSA's Equity and Excellence Policy by ensuring the delivery of quality, equitable, and inclusive constituent-centered support, while promoting and maintaining an inclusive work environment and culture, that embraces the diversity of people and perspectives collaborating at IMSA, to ignite and nurture creative, ethical, scientific minds that advance the human condition. 

To continue moving diversity, equity and inclusion forward, IMSA seeks to recruit, support, and retain diverse, talented individuals who are culturally competent, equity- minded, and constituent–centered.

WORKING CONDITIONS AND PHYSICAL REQUIREMENTS

Work is performed in an office setting with minimal exposure to health or safety hazards.  Substantial time is spent working on a computer.  This role generally requires mobility, written and verbal communication, hearing and visual capabilities. However, reasonable accommodations, including assistive technology, may be made to enable qualified individuals with disabilities to perform such requirements

The Illinois Mathematics and Science Academy is an Equal Employment Opportunity Employer committed to equity and excellence.  Qualified individuals from all backgrounds are encouraged to apply.

Organization

Working at IMSA

Academy Offers Unmatched Educational Experiences

Illinois Mathematics and Science Academy (IMSA) fosters the discoverers. The thinkers. The innovators and experimenters. The problem-solvers of the future who can change the world through their life’s work. IMSA innovates the future of science, technology, engineering and math education. It creates a strong and diverse pipeline of talented students at its residential Academy in Aurora, Illinois for 10th through 12th grade students. IMSA’s mission is to ignite and nurture creative, scientific, ethical minds that advance the human condition.

IMSA’s tuition-free residential educational program enrolls a diverse student body of 650 from all areas of Illinois; admission is highly competitive.

National and International Leadership

IMSA is a recognized leader in mathematics and science education at the national and international levels and serves students, educators and policymakers beyond Illinois:

(1) IMSA founded and helps lead the work of the National Consortium for Specialized Secondary Schools of Mathematics, Science and Technology which consists of 75+ member institutions, including IMSA and the similar residential programs in 14 other states; (2) IMSA provides extensive professional development in problem-based learning to teachers in the nation and abroad; (3) IMSA staff and students serve on important national panels and task forces and

are invited as presenters at prestigious national and international conferences; and (4) IMSA is a model upon which a number of other schools in the U.S. and abroad are based.

In addition, IMSA hosted the 2018 International Student Science Fair.

Mission

To ignite and nurture creative, ethical, scientific minds that advance the human condition.

Beliefs

We Believe That…

  • All people have equal intrinsic worth.
  • All people have choices and are responsible for their actions.
  • Belonging to a community requires commitment to the common good.
  • Diverse perspectives enrich understanding and inspire discovery and creativity.
  • Honesty, trust and respect are vital for any relationship to thrive.
  • Learning never ends.
  • Meaning is constructed by the learner.
  • No one’s path in life is predetermined.
  • The ability to discern and create connections is the essence of understanding.
  • We are all stewards of our planet.
  • We can significantly improve life on our planet.

2020 Vision

By 2022, IMSA is a Recognized Global Leader and Catalyst in Equity and Excellence in STEM Teaching and Learning, Innovation and Entrepreneurship.

This is IMSA’s Impact Goal for the next 5-7 years. What is our strategy for achieving it?

What are IMSA’s Priority Outcomes and How Were They Developed?

IMSA’s priority outcomes were developed with faculty and staff through reflective dialogue on what institutional outcomes IMSA should pursue. Staff was engaged in retreats, community learning days and leadership meetings. IMSA invited external experts to support planning

activities, assisted in prioritizing and refining indicators, and help to set targets for these priority outcomes.

IMSA leadership attended and hosted many learning events and activities with alumni, faculty and staff since this process started in late 2014.

Outside of IMSA, staff participated in several events that informed our goal setting process, such as the Waubonsee Vision 2050 Futures Summit, Developing America’s Next Generation of Innovators for the STEM Education Working Group of the Clinton Global Initiative, the Strategic Planning Meeting of the Illinois Association of Gifted Children held at IMSA and leading a Chicago Public Schools Administrators’ Roundtable discussion on Leading a STEM School, also held at IMSA.

Company info
Telephone
6309075991
Location
1500 Sullivan Road
Aurora
IL
60506
US

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